Kalocorinnis wegneri

Kalocorinnis wegneri

Kalocorinnis wegneri is a species of Stick Insect/Phasmid from the family of Prisopodidae.
Ootheca This are Ootheca of Phasmid of the species Kalocorinnis wegneri. Usually, Phasmids lays their eggs by dropping them, burying them in soils/substrate, pinning them to leaf/branches or gluing them to leaf/branches but Phasmids from the tribe Korinnini seems to have evolved to lay their eggs in a cluster in the form of Ootheca, similar to Ootheca of Praying Mantis. The laying of Ootheca by Phasmid was first documented by a Group of Taxanomists conducting an expedition in Vietnam, where they chance upon a Phasmid (likely new to science) in the final moments of laying her Ootheca. Check out their video here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk1wfugbp7o Borneo,Kalocorinnis wegneri,Malaysia,Ootheca,Phasmid,Sabah,Stick Insect

Distribution

Endemic to the island of Borneo

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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderPhasmatodea
FamilyPrisopodidae
GenusKalocorinnis
SpeciesKalocorinnis wegneri
Photographed in
Malaysia